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| 21 | Pediatric Palliative Care Field Guide There are significant differences across a number of dimensions in what constitutes effective palliative care for adults versus infants and children. Infants and children needing palliative care range in age from prenatal to young adult, and interdisciplinary PPC teams care for patients and families with wideranging diagnoses and disease trajectories, often for many years. |
| 22 | Pediatric Palliative Care Medication Dosing & Common Phrase Guide Palliative care is patient and family-centered care that optimizes quality of life by anticipating, preventing, and treating suffering. Palliative care throughout the continuum of illness involves addressing physical, intellectual, emotional, social, and spiritual needs to facilitate patient autonomy, access to information and choice. |
| 23 | Pediatric Palliative Care: Global Perspectives This book is a major contribution to the process of documenting the development of pediatric palliative care and a tribute to those individuals and teams with the vision and commitment to advance pediatric palliative care. Children worldwide deserve nothing less |
| 24 | Pediatric Palliative Pain and Symptom Management Many children with life-limiting conditions have distressing symptoms not just at the end of life, but throughout the course of their illnesses, which may run years after the initial diagnosis. Because pediatricians treat these children throughout their disease trajectory, it is important to have the basic skills to assess and treat pain and other distressing symptoms. This article reviews pain and symptom assessment and management. |
| 25 | Pediatric-Hospice and Palliative Medicine Competencies Version 2.0 The Hospice and Palliative Medicine Competencies (version 2.3)10 describes a competent subspecialist in hospice and palliative medicine (HPM) caring for patients across the age spectrum. In this spectrum of patients with serious and life-threatening conditions, the pediatric population is a minority with specific needs that are similar and different than the rest of the population. The specific competencies appropriate |
| 26 | Quebec Stabdards of Practice for Pediatric Palliative Care The standards are intended for all healthcare teams who treat children with palliative care needs, provide services to their families, and for those who organise services and training in the field of pediatric palliative care. The care teams include the primary care team as well as the palliative care team, regardless of where they work within the healthcare network. |
| 27 | Standards of Practice for Pediatric Palliative Care and Hospice Pediatric palliative and/or hospice care is both a philosophy and an organized method for delivering individualized care to children with life-threatening conditions. |
| 28 | Symptom Management of Spiritual Suffering in Pediatric Palliative Care This article highlights the nursing role in assessing and managing symptoms of spiritual suffering in children living with life-threatening conditions. The complexity of spiritual suffering in the pediatric palliative care population emphasizes the need for an interdisciplinary team approach and the integral role of the nurse in providing spiritual support at end of life. |